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Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticlesMaster Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles
Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles wherein are handled the chiefest points of religion controversed and debated between us and the adversary at this day, especially touching the true Jesus Christ and the true Church, and the certain & infallible marks both of the one and of the other. Translated out of French into English by John Harmar ...Master Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles wherein are handled the chiefest points of religion controversed and debated betweene vs and the aduersarie at this day, especially touching the true Iesus Christ and the true Church, and the certaine & infallible marks both of the one and of the other. Translated out of French into English by Iohn Harmar ...
Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1587Oxford: printed by Ioseph Barnes, 1587
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it is a most abominable error to think to gain paradise by eating or not eating by marrying or not marrying, by eating flesh or eating fish. But I confess I do the world great wrong to enter into dispute of such things against them, against whose unchaste & gluttonous Epicurean life the heaven and the earth demand justice at Gods hand. Leaving them therefore to be carried in their Coach in full gallop to the place assigned them, I refer them by the way unto that which all the Prophets have written against the hypocrites and traditionaries of their time, and unto that which the Lord himself saith in so many places of the Evangelists, and saint Paul expressly Rom. 14.17. speaking of that which was for a time forbidden by the commandment of God himself, who hath not buried Moses to make place for humane traditions, Coloss. 2.23. 1. Timot. 4.3.8.
it is a most abhominable error to thinke to gaine paradise by eating or not eating by marying or not marying, by eating flesh or eating fish. But I confesse I doe the world great wrong to enter into dispute of such thinges against them, against whose vnchast & gluttenous Epicurian life the heauen and the earth demaund iustice at Gods hand. Leauing them therefore to be carried in their Coch in full gallop to the place assigned them, I referre them by the way vnto that which all the Prophets haue written against the hypocrites and traditionaries of their time, and vnto that which the Lord himselfe saith in so many places of the Euangelistes, and saint Paul expresly Rom. 14.17. speaking of that which was for a time forbidden by the commandement of God himself, who hath not buried Moses to make place for humane traditions, Coloss. 2.23. 1. Timot. 4.3.8.
4 Let us now return to this Coach of the bridegroom, prepared by him therein to receive his spouse. A man may therefore marvel why there is here no mention made of wheels or of Coach-horses: things which seem altogether necessary to make this Coach to go. But the reason is evident, namely because this Coach moveth not properly by any human art & industry, but by the sole virtue & power of him who made the Coach and conducteth it after a most especial and divine manner. And yet this is not therefore to exclude the ministry, either of Angels, which thing is represented unto us in that heavenly chariot which Ezekiel saw with his wheels: